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  Re: Caret key quits idle on pt keyboard Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-11-30 17:13 +0100

#99740 — Re: Caret key quits idle on pt keyboard

In a message of Tue, 01 Dec 2015 02:57:15 +1100, Chris Angelico writes:
>On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 2:10 AM, Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> wrote:
>> On 2015-11-30, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hmm. This could be part of the known issues with Tk (on which Idle
>>> depends) and non-BMP characters, but a caret should be safe.
>>
>> Is there a known issue with dead keys? From what I can find the
>> Portuguese keyboard doesn't have a "proper" caret, it has a
>> circumflex dead key which you can press space or any non-vowel to
>> get a caret.  Seems to work fine for me though.
>
>Ah, that might explain it. I don't have a system to test it on,
>though. Definitely needs OS/Python version details.
>
>ChrisA

I have a Swedish keyboard which has a caret dead-key that works 
as Random832 describes.  Idle works perfectly well for me.

There are a bunch of MacOS specific idle keyboard bugs.  I wonder
if this is (possibly another) one of them.

Laura

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